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title: The people did not understand, but the dragon-women knew that Pele o… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: The people did not understand, but the dragon-women knew that Pele only needed to point them out as they sat near Lohiau, to have all the chiefs cry out against them in scorn. Who acts: people, dragon women, Pele, chiefs. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt,
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele’s Long Sleep, sentence 133

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The people did not understand, but the dragon-women knew that Pele only needed to point them out as they sat near Lohiau, to have all the chiefs cry out against them in scorn.

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**Who acts:** people, dragon women, Pele, chiefs · **What happens:** not understand, know, need, point out, sit, have · **To what, where:** Pele, Lohiau, scorn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele’s Long Sleep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, dragon women, Pele, chiefs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:14:133
# text = The people did not understand, but the dragon-women knew that Pele only needed to point them out as they sat near Lohiau, to have all the chiefs cry out against them in scorn.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	Pele	Pele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Lohiau	Lohiau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	cry	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	against	against	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **understand** | past · do-support | the people |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **know** | past | the dragon women |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **need** | past | Pele |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **point out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Pele *not said here* | Pele |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **sit** | past | Pele |  |  | Lohiau |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near lohiau=Location |
| 6 | **have** | to-infinitive | Pele *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **cry out** *speech: express* | present | all chiefs |  |  | scorn |  | against Pele | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against they=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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